If You Do Not Have Facebook Messenger You will very soon
Those of you that rely on the
Facebook app for your chats won’t
be able to much longer if Facebook follows through on their plan. Facebook has
notified users in a few European countries that messaging friends in the
Facebook app will stop in about 2 weeks. Users will still be able to message
their friends, but they will have to download and install the Facebook
Messenger app in order to do so.
This doesn’t appear to be a “test” and is the long term plan for
Facebook. You can expect this change to hit every country, but there are a few
caveats. Those with lower-end Android devices won’t be required to use Messenger. Also, for whatever reason,
Windows phone users will still be able to see messages in the Facebook app.
Finally, the Paper newsreader app (not on Android yet) will still show
messages.
So what do you guys think? I
personally don’t
use Facebook much anymore, and the few people that do message me on it, I am
happy to get them from the main app. Now I have to install another app in order
to get these few messages, which is a pain. On the other hand, I do understand
Facebook’s direction and they
certainly don’t
need to cater to part time users like myself.
source: The Verge
Come comment on this article: If
you don’t have Facebook
Messenger installed now, you will very soon
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